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Sunday 3rd July 2005
Foetus . . . but then last night, trying to go to sleep, I was wondering (as I often have) what would be the most surreal thing (or things) to give birth to. The last thing I remember before falling asleep was a litter (?!) of miniature (say, two to three inches wide) Sinclair ZX81's with perhaps at Oric Atmos (?!) thrown in for good measure. None of these would be solid, but rather constructed of some kind of rubbery, plastic stuff. Upon closer examination, the keyboards wouldn't be quite right. The letter Q would be to the right of the W and would be more like a U with a line over the top (but with the diagonal bit at the bottom right, of course). The A would have two horizontal lines through the middle. X would just be missing. Some of the other characters would be completely unrecognisable. Each computer would have a slightly different keyboard. Probably just as well that I fell asleep at that point. Oh, at time of writing (but clearly no longer), no pages on the internet feature the words quicksilver, foetus and ZX81. This is according to Google, naturally. Perhaps when the Google bot next visits my web-site, all that will change. Oh, and that image is Simon angle-grinding (or ankle-grinding if you're M****) those awful remnants of a banisters from my walls. There were a few bits of metal left behind, see. They must have been plastered over or something.
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